Hello,
we have 28m old twin boys and we started potty training shortly before their 2nd birthday. One was occasionally doing wees on the potty at that point and the other was asking to do poos (once or twice). We had potties around as their older sister was still using them.
Since then, there has been virtually no progress, they're frequently wet, have never without prompting gone to the potty on their own and they do almost all of their poos in their pants.
We started a reward scheme: poo in potty means chocolate coin, but even this only works if you spot the signs of needing to go and put them on the potty yourself.
They are physically capable and can decide when to wee: as long as we put them on the potty regularly, they will do their wees in there. If there's a chocolate coin on offer, they will sometimes do a small poo in the potty, but the 'main job' mostly goes into the pants.
I have done some reading, and wanted to know whether it's really worth (for example) cutting up nappies (they have not been in nappies for months) so that they can do their poos onto them in the potty, or whether we should just give up and leave it until they're 3 or whenever.
With three small kids in the house, it is very difficult to do 'watch like a hawk' training and we're getting sick of the constant dirty clothing.
We had them in pull up for holiday, which lifted the burden of washing clothes, and didn't really make much of a difference to whether they'd wee or poo on the potty. What pull-ups did was make us lazy about taking them to the potty, so we're thinking they're not a good solution.
Help please...
We don't want to give up, but it's wearing rather thin after 4 months of washing several (twins, don't forget) yucky sets of clothing each day.
Thanks.